I think Deus ex will translate into a great movie, all the games ARE plot driven and there was a novel on human revolution

as long as the game stays actiony, cyber-renaissance and conspiracy-themed then the movie will definantly give an audience that philisphocical feel while giving the fans somthing very special

Posted by Devieus

Of course it could also end up like 'Prince of Persia' or 'Tomb Raider', movies so mediocre you forgot to mention them anywhere.

Words of wisdom :)

Out of curiosity, I went to Wikipedia to see a list of movies based on games: Just as I said in my previous post and as Devieus added, ALL these movies were mediocre, may I say, downright horrible.

The average score on Rotten tomatoes is about 15/100 with some movies scoring 1 and 4. The 2 examples that I used in my earlier post scored 20 for Doom and 16 for Max Payne.

Let's hope that Deus Ex doesn't join this lame list and be with the 80+ movies

Will2k

Posted by will2k

Recent history shows us that movies based on games either get cancelled at the last minute or fail horribly when released.

The 2 recent examples were Doom and Max Payne. Big media corporations always want to cash-in on the success of game franchises and they jump on the bandwagon of transforming the game into a movie. That's fine in theory as a successful game should easily translate into a blockbuster movie; however, in reality, the big corporate heads rarely follow the formula of the game and end up changing completely the plot, events and even the visuals in the movie, further alienating it from the game.

Generally the movie ends up pissing the game fans off and fails to appeal to a wider mass audience. Max Payne is a perfect case study for game-movie transition gone wrong.

In my opinion, if a movie based on a game ever wants to succeed, then the game developer has to be closely involved and given the creative freedom to intervene and change what is deemed necessary for the film's success. Examples of these success stories can be found with the short movies released by Ubisoft for the Assassin's Creed franchise (mix of real actors, in-game CGI) and "Meet the team" short movies by Valve.

I really hope Ubisoft Montreal-Square Enix will be tightly monitoring the movie progress, otherwise, it will be Max Payne happening all over again.

Will2k

Of course it could also end up like 'Prince of Persia' or 'Tomb Raider', movies so mediocre you forgot to mention them anywhere.

Well Finaly a successfull game gets a movie .

but i kinda agree with will2k .

deus ex 1 was to have a movie, but i dont know what happened to it.

but its so cool seeing human revolution will follow the first game's footsteps imagine seeing bob page in the movie

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Posted by GuitarHero

always wanted to spend $15 to watch a movie covered in jarate...in 3D

Edit: sorry about that. the story is good im not going to lie about it. but my only grip was actually the visuals. i know your not supposed to judge game completely on visuals. but the whole yellow tint of everything bothered me quite a bit.

Just like the blue overlay of BF3

exactly.

Posted by GuitarHero

always wanted to spend $15 to watch a movie covered in jarate...in 3D

Edit: sorry about that. the story is good im not going to lie about it. but my only grip was actually the visuals. i know your not supposed to judge game completely on visuals. but the whole yellow tint of everything bothered me quite a bit.

Just like the blue overlay of BF3

always wanted to spend $15 to watch a movie covered in jarate...in 3D

Edit: sorry about that. the story is good im not going to lie about it. but my only grip was actually the visuals. i know your not supposed to judge game completely on visuals. but the whole yellow tint of everything bothered me quite a bit. and besides this game is cursed to flop

Movie Based Games = Failures Game Based Movies = Flops

of course this is my opinion on it

As a movie, it might work, as a movie tied to Deus Ex, it's going to rape the series.

The problem is that movies always have the exact same outcome, no matter how many times you see them; but the nature of the Deus Ex games, including the second and third, developed during times where linearity became a standard, has always been that there are at least six ways of going through a door (lockpicking, hacking, blowing up, stealing the key, finding the password, or circumventing it altogether; though no particular door ever allowed for all six at once)